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The diversification of threats, and the people behind them, are generating new challenges for the defence and security communities, and to society as a whole.

Transnational organised crime is estimated as having a budget twice larger than all military budgets combined. How much influence and governing power could non-state actors...

Globalisation of all sectors — economic, security, information, technological development, etc.— together with increased mobility and solidarity of the population worldwide are accelerating the spread and implementation...

Cybersecurity has evolved into an unconventional warfare on a multidimensional, multilayered, and asymmetric battlespace. For instance, as cyber-weapons and unmanned sensors and vehicles are becoming key military elements, critical...

Standardization is a key aspect to support the development of new technological enablers aligned with regulatory efforts The European High Level Group on Artificial Intelligence is drafting ethics guidelines...

Global military expenditure increased 75% over the past 20 years, but stands at around $1.7 trillion annually since 2009. In 2018, it was $1.774 trillion...

While terrorism is not a new phenomenon, future terrorists groups in general and lone wolf terrorists in particular will rise the security threats and challenges at new levels...

Governance Increasing global connectedness will continue to foster the interactions among non-state actors beyond states' capacity to control them, increasingly challenging traditional governance...

Never before have technological advances had so great an impact on security; not only increasing the nature and level of threats, but also for the possibility of providing the means to address...

Significant cyber incidents since 2006 -- including cyber attacks on government agencies, defense and high tech companies, or economic crimes with losses of more than a million dollars...